Benjamin Adroit

Palaeoecology; Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)

Stockholm, Sweden

Ecosystems are defined by the community of living organisms and the way they interact with each other and with their environment. Insects and plants are key taxa in terrestrial ecosystems and their networks determine the trophic structure of environments. However, the factors that determine these interactions are not well understood. My research focuses on the use of plant-insect interactions as an indicator of ecosystem changes over time. I observe the traces of herbivory directly on fossil and modern leaves using various methods based on damage morphology, leaf anatomy, their chemical signatures, etc.

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Bernasso, a paleoforest from the early Pleistocene: New input from plant-insect interactions (Herault, France)
First record of the family Trogossitidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) in the Late Pliocene deposits of Willershausen (Germany)
Plant-insect interactions patterns in three European paleoforests of the late-Neogene—early-Quaternary
The Plio-Pleistocene biogeographic history of Parrotia persica highlighted by a new plant-insect interaction
Plant-insect interaction at Willershausen (-3 Ma, Germany): insights into the structuration of an important late European Palaeoecosystem.
Structure of the European palaeoecosystems from the Plio-Pleistocene transition: inputs of the plant-insect interactions
Changes in pattern of plant-insect interactions on the Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica, Hamamelidaceae) over the last 3 million years
Fossil mega- and micro-flora from Bernasso (Early Pleistocene, southern France): A multimethod comparative approach for paleoclimatic reconstruction
A case of long-term herbivory: specialized feeding trace on Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) plant species
Patterns of insect damage types reflect complex environmental signal in Miocene forest biomes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean
Rich specialized insect damage on Pliocene leaves from the Mahuadanr Valley (India) growing under a warm climate with weak seasonality

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